TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t just the coastline, though it took most of the blow.
As Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida on Wednesday, the beach towns were the first to go as water and winds up to 150 mph decimated paradise towns from Fort Myers Beach to Punta Gorda — a city familiar with disaster, taking close to a decade to recover from 2004′s Hurricane Charley.
Houses were torn from foundations by water that acted as a conveyor belt. Personal belongings and building materials fused with wet earth.
